[lbo-talk] A hundred grand a year???

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Wed Nov 2 12:35:10 PST 2005


john taylor wrote:


>What are you guys smoking? Skilled trades at max
>seniority and overtime can't make that much in a year.
> I topped out in production at $45,000 (with
>overtime)! And I thought I was making it good!

According to the BLS, the average weekly wage for a production worker in automobiles & light trucks was $1,305.32 in August, which works out to $65,000 a year. That included 6.2 hours of overtime.



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